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Payroll calendar 2028: paydays in a leap year
Plan 2028 now: pick the schedule and one payday, and the calendar lists the year’s paydays with each weekend and holiday move.
Paydays in 2028
26first Friday, January 7, last Friday, December 22
No payday falls on a weekend or holiday.
January
- Fri 7
- Fri 21
February
- Fri 4
- Fri 18
March
- Fri 3
- Fri 17
- Fri 31
April
- Fri 14
- Fri 28
May
- Fri 12
- Fri 26
June
- Fri 9
- Fri 23
July
- Fri 7
- Fri 21
August
- Fri 4
- Fri 18
September
- Fri 1
- Fri 15
- Fri 29
October
- Fri 13
- Fri 27
November
- Fri 10
- Fri 24
December
- Fri 8
- Fri 22
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Payroll year 2028 is a leap year of 366 days that starts on a Saturday and ends on a Sunday, so it holds 53 Saturdays and 53 Sundays but only 52 of each weekday. No biweekly schedule paid on a weekday reaches 27 paydays in 2028: every Friday series has 26. The holidays shape the year differently. New Year’s Day falls on a Saturday, so federal employees take Friday, December 31, 2027 off, while the Federal Reserve Banks stay open that day and close on no weekday at all for it. Veterans Day is also a Saturday, observed by federal offices on Friday, November 10, 2028, a day when banks are open. For a payroll that follows the bank calendar, nine weekday closures remain in 2028; for one that follows the federal calendar, the count is ten, plus that Friday in December 2027. The calendar above computes each payday from those rules, the same ones that give the 2026 and 2027 schedules on this site.
Working days in a month or a year
Working days in 2028
251
| Weekdays, Monday to Friday | 260 |
| Holidays on a weekday | 9 |
| Working hours at 8 a day | 2,008 |
Holidays taken out: Birthday of Martin Luther King, Jr., Washington’s Birthday, Memorial Day, Juneteenth National Independence Day and 5 more.
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Holidays and bank days in 2028
Two of the eleven holidays fall on Saturdays in 2028. For federal employees, OPM’s table moves them to the Friday before, as 5 U.S.C. 6103(b) requires. For banks, the Federal Reserve schedule keeps the Friday open. A payroll calendar therefore has to say which calendar it follows: the generator offers both.
| Holiday | Date in law | Federal day off | Fed banks closed |
|---|---|---|---|
| New Year’s Day | Saturday, January 1, 2028 | Friday, December 31 | open (Saturday holiday) |
| Birthday of Martin Luther King, Jr. | Monday, January 17, 2028 | same day | same day |
| Washington’s Birthday | Monday, February 21, 2028 | same day | same day |
| Memorial Day | Monday, May 29, 2028 | same day | same day |
| Juneteenth National Independence Day | Monday, June 19, 2028 | same day | same day |
| Independence Day | Tuesday, July 4, 2028 | same day | same day |
| Labor Day | Monday, September 4, 2028 | same day | same day |
| Columbus Day | Monday, October 9, 2028 | same day | same day |
| Veterans Day | Saturday, November 11, 2028 | Friday, November 10 | open (Saturday holiday) |
| Thanksgiving Day | Thursday, November 23, 2028 | same day | same day |
| Christmas Day | Monday, December 25, 2028 | same day | same day |
The New Year’s Day row reads strangely but correctly: the day off for New Year’s Day 2028 is Friday, December 31, 2027, in the previous year. That is also the last scheduled payday of the 2027 Friday series that started on New Year’s Day 2027, which is why the federal and bank calendars give it different answers.
Biweekly 2028, first Friday series
The first Friday of 2028 is Friday, January 7, 2028. Its series has 26 paydays, the last on Friday, December 22, 2028, and none of them meets a weekday bank holiday. The other Friday series starts on Friday, January 14, 2028 and ends on Friday, December 29, 2028, also with 26 paydays.
| # | Paid on | Scheduled | Why it moved | Pay period |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Friday, January 7, 2028 | same day | Dec 19 to Jan 1 | |
| 2 | Friday, January 21, 2028 | same day | Jan 2 to Jan 15 | |
| 3 | Friday, February 4, 2028 | same day | Jan 16 to Jan 29 | |
| 4 | Friday, February 18, 2028 | same day | Jan 30 to Feb 12 | |
| 5 | Friday, March 3, 2028 | same day | Feb 13 to Feb 26 | |
| 6 | Friday, March 17, 2028 | same day | Feb 27 to Mar 11 | |
| 7 | Friday, March 31, 2028 | same day | Mar 12 to Mar 25 | |
| 8 | Friday, April 14, 2028 | same day | Mar 26 to Apr 8 | |
| 9 | Friday, April 28, 2028 | same day | Apr 9 to Apr 22 | |
| 10 | Friday, May 12, 2028 | same day | Apr 23 to May 6 | |
| 11 | Friday, May 26, 2028 | same day | May 7 to May 20 | |
| 12 | Friday, June 9, 2028 | same day | May 21 to Jun 3 | |
| 13 | Friday, June 23, 2028 | same day | Jun 4 to Jun 17 | |
| 14 | Friday, July 7, 2028 | same day | Jun 18 to Jul 1 | |
| 15 | Friday, July 21, 2028 | same day | Jul 2 to Jul 15 | |
| 16 | Friday, August 4, 2028 | same day | Jul 16 to Jul 29 | |
| 17 | Friday, August 18, 2028 | same day | Jul 30 to Aug 12 | |
| 18 | Friday, September 1, 2028 | same day | Aug 13 to Aug 26 | |
| 19 | Friday, September 15, 2028 | same day | Aug 27 to Sep 9 | |
| 20 | Friday, September 29, 2028 | same day | Sep 10 to Sep 23 | |
| 21 | Friday, October 13, 2028 | same day | Sep 24 to Oct 7 | |
| 22 | Friday, October 27, 2028 | same day | Oct 8 to Oct 21 | |
| 23 | Friday, November 10, 2028 | same day | Oct 22 to Nov 4 | |
| 24 | Friday, November 24, 2028 | same day | Nov 5 to Nov 18 | |
| 25 | Friday, December 8, 2028 | same day | Nov 19 to Dec 2 | |
| 26 | Friday, December 22, 2028 | same day | Dec 3 to Dec 16 |
Fixed-date pay in 2028
A semi-monthly payroll on the 15th and the last day moves 7 paydays in 2028, among them January 15, a Saturday paid on Friday, January 14, 2028, and December 31, a Sunday paid on Friday, December 29. A monthly payroll on the last day moves 3 times: April, September and December end on weekends. The leap day only matters for pay on the last day of February, which is the 29th in 2028.
Working days set many salaries for hourly staff and the cost of a month for employers. With the bank calendar, 2028 counts the business days shown in the mini tool below; choose a month to see how many weekdays and holidays it holds.
Working days in a month or a year
Working days in 2027
249
| Weekdays, Monday to Friday | 261 |
| Holidays on a weekday | 12 |
| Working hours at 8 a day | 1,992 |
Holidays taken out: New Year’s Day, Birthday of Martin Luther King, Jr., Washington’s Birthday, Memorial Day and 8 more.
Using the 2028 calendar with care
The dates on this page come from rules: the holiday law, the observance rules for federal employees and for banks, and the schedule you enter. They will hold unless one of those changes. Congress has added holidays before, most recently Juneteenth in 2021, and the Federal Reserve publishes its schedules several years ahead; this site reads both again when they change and dates each update. Your employer can also change its payday rules, so the payroll office’s calendar is the final word for your own checks.
For the year before, the biweekly 2027 schedule shows how the New Year’s Day payday of 2027 is handled, and the 27 pay periods page lists the coming years that carry an extra biweekly check.